Posted on 10/14/2007 5:13:14 PM PDT by blam
US tries to halt Turkey attack
Diplomats fly to Ankara to stop military move against Iraqi Kurds after 'genocide' resolution
Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Observer (UK)
Senior US officials were engaged last night in last-ditch efforts to persuade Turkey not to launch a major military incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan to target armed separatists. A team was diverted from a mission to Russia to make an unscheduled stop in Ankara yesterday. Against the background of the escalating diplomatic row between Turkey and the US over a congressional resolution that branded as 'genocide' massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915, US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, revealed she had personally urged Turkey to refrain from any major military operation in northern Iraq. The row between the two Nato allies comes against the dangerous background of a threat by the Turkish parliament to approve this week a 'hot pursuit' of the Kurdish separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, across the border into northern Iraq.
The threat of military action came after last Sunday's killing by the PKK of 13 Turkish soldiers in an ambush in Sirnak province, close to the Iraqi border. 'I urged restraint,' said Rice, on a visit to Moscow, acknowledging 'a difficult time' between the two countries as she described her telephone conversations with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul, its Prime Minister and foreign minister.
'It's a difficult time for the relationship,' Rice said. 'We just thought it was a very good idea for two senior officials to go and talk to the Turks and have reassurance to the Turks that we really value this relationship.' Rice said that in her conversation with the Turks 'they were dismayed' by the congressional resolution. 'The Turkish government, I think,
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“The PPK are the Few.They are a Communist “liberation” organization just like old times.”
you are correct, except that they are now in the employ of the iranian mullahs, and no longer under control of the ruskies.
I didn't know about that.
Karzai, the paki isi, the turk military,the PKK and the mullahs all get a piece of the heroin pie.
Who would you rather have to deal with, communist or head chopping islamist fanatics who will convert you by threat of death or make you a dhimmi?
the turk army captured the leader of the PKK and then cut a deal with him for poppy profits, and released him.
So after 92 years, while we are fighting a war in a country on their border, our representatives decide it a good time to make a statement? I think the politicians, with all of their brains merged into one, couldn’t find their way out of elevator. Fools!
The fact still remains that Turkey has extended us the right to use their airspace and ground routes for supplies. Based on what you think will take place down the road, you seem to think it’s best we insult Turkey now and turn it against us immediately rather than engage it and seek to keep it from turning into a Syria or Iran.
Do I like what is taking place politicaly in Turkey? Of course not. That doesn’t mean that Turkey won’t turn things around when a new leader comes aboard later. It’s my goal to make sure Turkey still thinks of us as their friend when that person seeks to moderate what is taking place.
What chance will there be for that, if we simply classify it as an enemy today and shoot our mouth off from here on out?
Should we keep an eye on it? Hell yes. Should we engage and try to moderate it’s actions. Of course. Should we alienate it at once? Not hardly.
Very interesting, thank you. I’ll have to start reading up on that.
They might run into trouble though...
They might run into trouble though...
Too true!
yeah, they might run into the RUKs
THE PKK is headquartered in Iran and has iranian sanctuary there.
Thanks you, stupid dunderhead Nancy Peloser.
That explains a lot. Thanks
Makes sense as to their actions.
Were those rights extended to us or did we have to pay for them?
Turkey has been going down that path, it's just no one noticed.
They're friends with syria and iran already. That's another of the two faces I was talking about. Turkey's mask is about to be ripped off and their true islamic nature will be apparent to everyone.
It’s my goal to make sure Turkey still thinks of us as their friend when that person seeks to moderate what is taking place.What chance will there be for that, if we simply classify it as an enemy today and shoot our mouth off from here on out?
They are not our friend. They have been playing at being our friend.
Should we keep an eye on it? Hell yes. Should we engage and try to moderate it’s actions. Of course. Should we alienate it at once? Not hardly.
Keep an eye on them because they are not our friend. Try to moderate it? Is there such a thing as moderate islam?
Yes, I have been reading that Turkey is coming closer to being an Islamic state instead of the “secular” one it is now.
Indeed. LOL But it sure would be interesting if they did.
Do you remember... concerning the oil fields, let me look through my bookmarks a sec.
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